Fair Play: You are sissy!
I KNOW it’s bad to gloat but I can’t help it.
The Los Angeles Lakers won in five games.
Just like I said they would. LA in five, I said at the start of the NBA finals.
Win in five they did. And my man Kobe Bryant won the Most Valuable Player award.
And that came after Roger Federer, as I hoped he would, completed his career grand slam at the French Open.
What a lovely two weeks these have been.
And Wimbledon—the major tennis event that requires its players to wear white—starts on Monday and I hope good luck come in threes.
Because right now, things are looking good for Roger Federer’s fans.
Aside from Federer getting his 15th major this year, one of the other things I am looking forward to is Maria Sharapova’s return to Wimbledon after her second-round loss last year.
I wonder if she’ll show up with that “tuxedo outfit” again.
Sharapova, in that outfit, lost to No. 154 Alla Kudryavtseva in the second round, and her fellow Russian had scathing words after that win,
“It's very pleasant to beat Maria. Why? Well, I don't like her outfit. Can I put it this way? It's a little too much of everything. It was one of the motivations to beat her," she said.
Sidelined for almost 10 months, Sharapova dropped to a low 126 in the rankings.
However, she’s played quite well in her last three tournaments, making two quarterfinals—including in the French Open—and one semifinals.
Should that trend continues, either she’ll lose in the semifinals at Wimbledon or lose in the finals.
Either way, I’d be happy.
As for Federer, it looks like he won’t get to beat Rafael Nadal in Wimbledon.
The Spaniard is still nursing a bum knee and though he is seeded first in the grass event, he’s going to decide today whether he will defend his title or not.
The Spaniard missed the tuneup event for Wimbledon but played one exhibition and is set to play in another friendly game before deciding whether to rest or not.
And reports indicate Nadal may be back in Spain sooner than expected.
Nadal lost to Lleyton Hewitt in his first exhibition match and his coach said he isn’t optimistic of his ward’s chances of playing in Wimbledon.
“If it’s me, I’m (flying) to Mallorca,” his coach said in an AP report.
PHONICS. Here’s something funny. I overheard an editor last week—he shall remain unidentified for his safety—say the acronym for Universal Reality Combat Championships, ironically, sounds like “You are sissy!”
Ouch.
I’ve always thought URCC sounded funny.
When I first heard about it a few years back, I thought it was a fight sponsored by a ketchup company. I thought then that you have to be a really sick marketing folk if you want to associate your ketchup with a bloody fight.
But, URCC, like it or not, has stuck.
And today mixed-martial arts fans can have the fill of their action in URCC IV at the CICC.
Just don’t go shouting “U! R! C! C!” to anybody’s face.
TYPO ERROR? If URCC wants to get to the same level as boxing here in Cebu, fixing their weight divisions is a good start.
Going to the weigh-in Mark Ediva thought he could make the limit. He weighed at 154 pounds, five below the 159-pound limit.
The problem is, Ediva is fighting at the 149-pound limit.
The Los Angeles Lakers won in five games.
Just like I said they would. LA in five, I said at the start of the NBA finals.
Win in five they did. And my man Kobe Bryant won the Most Valuable Player award.
And that came after Roger Federer, as I hoped he would, completed his career grand slam at the French Open.
What a lovely two weeks these have been.
And Wimbledon—the major tennis event that requires its players to wear white—starts on Monday and I hope good luck come in threes.
Because right now, things are looking good for Roger Federer’s fans.
Aside from Federer getting his 15th major this year, one of the other things I am looking forward to is Maria Sharapova’s return to Wimbledon after her second-round loss last year.
I wonder if she’ll show up with that “tuxedo outfit” again.
Sharapova, in that outfit, lost to No. 154 Alla Kudryavtseva in the second round, and her fellow Russian had scathing words after that win,
“It's very pleasant to beat Maria. Why? Well, I don't like her outfit. Can I put it this way? It's a little too much of everything. It was one of the motivations to beat her," she said.
Sidelined for almost 10 months, Sharapova dropped to a low 126 in the rankings.
However, she’s played quite well in her last three tournaments, making two quarterfinals—including in the French Open—and one semifinals.
Should that trend continues, either she’ll lose in the semifinals at Wimbledon or lose in the finals.
Either way, I’d be happy.
As for Federer, it looks like he won’t get to beat Rafael Nadal in Wimbledon.
The Spaniard is still nursing a bum knee and though he is seeded first in the grass event, he’s going to decide today whether he will defend his title or not.
The Spaniard missed the tuneup event for Wimbledon but played one exhibition and is set to play in another friendly game before deciding whether to rest or not.
And reports indicate Nadal may be back in Spain sooner than expected.
Nadal lost to Lleyton Hewitt in his first exhibition match and his coach said he isn’t optimistic of his ward’s chances of playing in Wimbledon.
“If it’s me, I’m (flying) to Mallorca,” his coach said in an AP report.
PHONICS. Here’s something funny. I overheard an editor last week—he shall remain unidentified for his safety—say the acronym for Universal Reality Combat Championships, ironically, sounds like “You are sissy!”
Ouch.
I’ve always thought URCC sounded funny.
When I first heard about it a few years back, I thought it was a fight sponsored by a ketchup company. I thought then that you have to be a really sick marketing folk if you want to associate your ketchup with a bloody fight.
But, URCC, like it or not, has stuck.
And today mixed-martial arts fans can have the fill of their action in URCC IV at the CICC.
Just don’t go shouting “U! R! C! C!” to anybody’s face.
TYPO ERROR? If URCC wants to get to the same level as boxing here in Cebu, fixing their weight divisions is a good start.
Going to the weigh-in Mark Ediva thought he could make the limit. He weighed at 154 pounds, five below the 159-pound limit.
The problem is, Ediva is fighting at the 149-pound limit.
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